And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.

His winnowing-fork is in His hand, and He will clean out His threshing-floor and store His wheat in His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with fire that never can be put out."

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy store-house, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father who seeing in secret shall give back to thee openly.

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal.

for wherever [you store] your valuables, that is where your heart [i.e., your real concern] will be also.

Take a good look at the wild birds, for they do not sow or reap, or store up food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps on feeding them. Are you not worth more than they?

And behold, a great storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being inundated by the waves, but he himself was asleep.

and they that kept them fled away into the town, and told the whole story of what had happen'd to the devils and their demoniacs.

And from the days of John the Baptist until the present moment the kingdom of heaven has been continuously taken by storm, and those who take it by storm are seizing it as a precious prize.

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

"Now listen closely to the story of the sower.

He told them another story, as follows: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed seed in his field.

Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

He told them this story, as follows: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field.

He told another story: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to yeast which a woman took and worked into a bushel of flour until it all had risen."

Jesus told the crowds all this in stories, and without a story He told them nothing,

Then He left the crowds and went into His house. And His disciples came up to Him and said, "Explain to us the story of the wild wheat in the field."

The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.

And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.

And they all eat and were filled; and they took up the fragments that remained, seven store-baskets full.

and in the morning, A storm to-day, for the sky is red and lowering; ye know how to discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot the signs of the times.

nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many store-baskets you took up?

"Listen to another story. There was once an owner of an estate who planted a vineyard and built a fence around it, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a tower, and rented it to tenant farmers, and then went abroad.

But they made fun of it, and went on about their business, one to his farm, another to his store.

If therefore they should say to you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth; Behold, in the store-houses, believe ye not.

"Now learn what the story of the fig tree means. Just as soon as its branches grow tender, and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near.

But the thoughtful ones answered, 'No, no, there may not be enough for you and us. Go to the store and buy your own oil.'

And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood.

So they took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been told among the Jews down to the present time.

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?

And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?

And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.

And a great storm of wind came up, and the waves came into the boat, so that the boat was now becoming full.

Now when He had left the crowd and gone home, His disciples were asking Him the meaning of this story.

And they eat and were filled; and they took up of the fragments that remained over, seven store-baskets;

And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many store-baskets of fragments took you up? And they said, Seven.

And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.

As for the dead being raised, haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

"Now learn what the story of the fig tree means. Just as soon as its branches grow tender, and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near.

so that you may know the certainty of the story which you have been taught by the word of mouth.

All their neighbors were awe-struck at this; and throughout the hill-country of Judea the whole story was much talked about;

All who heard the story treasured it in their memories. "What then will this child be?" they said. For the lord's hand was indeed with him.

"Have no fear," the angel said. "For I bring you good news of a great joy in store for all the nation.

When they saw this, they informed them of the story that had been told about this child.

All who heard the shepherds were astonished at their story,

and the child grew in stature and in all the improvements of the mind; he was stor'd with wisdom, and was the object of divine favour.

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.

However, the story about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came together to listen to him, and to be cured of their illnesses;

And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?

The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.

And this story about him went through all Judaea and the places round about.

And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story:

And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filling with water , and were in jeopardy.

Then they came to him and, awaking him out of his sleep, said, Master, Master, destruction is near. And he, when he was awake, gave orders to the wind and the rolling waves, and the storm came to an end, and all was calm.

"Go back to your home," he said, "and relate the story of all that God has done for you." So the man went through the whole town and proclaimed, as he went, all that Jesus had done for him.

"You must store away in your memories these words, for the Son of Man is going to be turned over to the hands of men!"

And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

And he pondered within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have nowhere I will store my crops?

And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

Consider the ravens, that they sow not, neither reap; which have no store-chamber nor barn; and God feedeth them: of how much more value are ye than the birds!

For wherever you store your valuables, that is where your heart [i.e., your real concern] will be also.

Peter said to Him, "Lord, do you mean this story for us, or is it for everybody?"

He also said to the crowds: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.

And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.

And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,

And he made a story for them, saying,

It was the law and the prophets until John, but ever since that time the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everybody has been taking it by storm.

but the very day that Lot went out of Sodom, a storm of lightning and thunder fell from heaven and destroy'd them all.

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:

And while they were giving ear to these words, he made another story for them, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they were of the opinion that the kingdom of God was coming straight away.

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;

But the whole story seemed to them an idle tale; they could not believe the women.

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

The father whose sons you are is the Devil; and you desire to do what gives him pleasure. *He* was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth--for there is no truth in him. Whenever he utters his lie, he utters it out of his own store; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

This caused a storm of outcries, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" "Am I to crucify your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king, except Caesar," answered the High Priests.

So the story spread among the brothers that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not tell him that he was not going to die; he said, "If I wish him to wait till I come, what does it matter to you?"

And, when they had entered, into the upper-story went they up, where remained behind - both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the zealot, and Judas the son of James.

And when the day of Pentecost came [Note: This was a Jewish festival held fifty days following the Passover Festival. Lev. 23:15-21], they [i.e., the twelve apostles] were all gathered together in one place [i.e., their second story living quarters, 1:13 ?].

All who heard their story, moved by a common impulse, raised their voices to God in prayer: "O Sovereign Lord, it is you who has 'made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,'

When the Officer in charge at the Temple and the Chief Priests heard their story, they were perplexed about the Apostles and as to what all this would lead to.

His sentence ended in his humiliation. Who will tell the story of his posterity? For his life is perished from the earth."

but the disciples took him by night and sent him away by the wall, letting him down in a store-basket.

Barnabas, however, taking him by the hand, brought him to the Apostles, and told them the whole story of how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord, and how the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out fearlessly in the Name of Jesus.

and after telling them the whole story, sent them to Joppa.

You know the story yourselves that spread all over Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John preached,